Player Features and Ideas Discussion

With regards to daracores rather than mining I would prefer to see them come from research on data slates found through exploration. The datacores delivered would depend on the science skill levels utilized by the capsuleer. Research time would be affected by the level of research upgrades.

This would tie datacore generation to science skills, introduce trade in the dataslates and boost dxploration as something useful would come from the data sites.

Would one be able to boot strap an entire null-sec presence with a fleet of Prospects, and maybe a coupple blockade runners bringing out a small (or medium) Assembly Array structure, a service module to build more structures (currently not available with POS), and a container stuffed full of blueprints?

What'll happen to the Hyasyoda mobile laboratory? Will it get upgraded into one of these? What are the mat increases going to look like?

Or at the very least, research everything in one and manufacture everything in the other one.

But we need to get people into space doing things.

I only use the term "Mining" as it is what most closely resembles the same activity.

Imagine the sun produced 4 different kinds of solar anomalies that had to be scanned down with probes.

A Solar Flare:
Solar flares release huge ammounts of high energy particles which are tremendously hot. Activating a research module on this type of anomaly would produce High Energy Physics Datacores (you're researching high energy physics by doing an action like mining on a solar flare) Proximity to this anomalie would do AoE kinetic damage

A Solar Prominance:
Solar prominance is held together with massive magnetic fields. Activating a research module on this type of anomaly would produce Electromagnetic Physics Datacores. These would have EM AoE damage

A Sun Spot:
Sun spots would allow you to gather Nuclear Physics datacores. They would have a thermal AoE damage

An Imminant CME (Coronal Mass Ejection)
These would allow the gathering of Plasma Physics datacores. Thw area would produce explosive AoE damage

Now, other types of research sites:
Highly Unstable Wormhole (non traversable) - Kinetic and EM AoE damage

Event Horizon Anomaly (centre of wormhole):
Research of this would produce Quantum Physics Datacores

Gravitation Anomaly (in the wormholes "rings"):
Study of this would produce Graviton Physics datacores

The other datacores would have other sites. All found through probes.

The ship line that would do this would be the SoCT ship line. They have flat resistance profiles allowing them to spec tank easily. They are the "Teaching" faction so it fits that they would do research.



What I'm suggesting is that it shouldn't be a passive production but an actual activity in space, in a ship, at extremely visually cool sites with some danger to them. Be that area of effect damage for some sites and NPC rats at others. They can also be scaled easily for system sec status. Lower sec status gives anomalies that produce more datacores per cycle of the research module.

Cool idea but do you really think they would implement it? They can fix data sites loot tables for i don't know, a year now? Now, they want to implement passive activity to increase some part of industry because it will be easier and maybe more ppl will do it. All of that because of "Sandbox" keyword. Which lead us to "PvP" keyword. Which in combat version is performed by maybe 20% of all players.

How I see it... the datacore spawning is going to be already happening in space, and I think it's active thing cause they will most likely spawn only if there is activity inside (research, invention, copying so on) which requires attention, material, money and stuff. And makes more sense for datacores to come from there than anywhere else in my opinion.

It can't be stolen by random players unless you enable a public access as I've read it so far.

I would rather have it the exact opposite: NO structure is allowed to be the general "build all" that outposts are today. No matter what people want to build, they need to focus their assembly structures on that task. Or allow everything to be build in the XL version, but with a heavy decrease in TE/ME when no dedicated service is present.

I've done a quick re-read and I see that. Still, it's a bit weird that you would produce datacores and have random people fly up and take them at a "tax rate". It's still un-interesting game play. It's still passive. And it's still invulnarable to interference other than destroying the structure.

I'd far prefer pilots had to get into a ship, fly into space and do an activity in space to gather a resource instead of generate it passively.

Research Laboratories could have a utility module that would improve the quality or number of research sites that spawn in a system.